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When China hosted the summer Olympics in 2008 it promised greater press freedom, but six years later conditions for international journalists are increasingly more restrictive, as evidenced by a report released today by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China.

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New York, July 9, 2014--Chinese authorities should immediately release two writers who have been placed under house arrest in Beijing, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The move comes as China hosts U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

New York, June 5, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists
welcomes the release today of Tibetan documentary filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen,
who was jailed in China in 2008 for shooting the film, "Leaving Fear Behind," which documents conditions faced
by Tibetans under Chinese rule. Wangchen
was released from prison in Qinghai's provincial capital, Xining, today, but
faces an unspecified term of deprivation of political rights, according to Wangpo
Tethong, a member of the Switzerland-based Tibetan film company Filming
for Tibet who spoke to CPJ.

You will both have received many public and private letters
of advice prior to your meeting on Friday and Saturday in California. They will
urge you to take up specific issues ranging from military and trade concerns to
human rights. That diversity of concern is an indicator of how complex the
relationships between your two countries are. They lend themselves to no easy
solutions, and it is doubtful there will be immediate, radical change when you and
your teams conclude the talks.

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In a better world, it is usually a time for joy when a
prisoner nears his or her release date. Jailed Tibetan journalists and their
families do not live in that world. They live in a crueler place, where freedom
is a distant mirage that might never be reached, and exhaustion or death is the
reality.

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Almost two months have passed since President Xi
Jinping took office. Despite expectations for greater transparency, Beijing continues
to try to suppress information on a broad range of issues from human rights to
public health.

Some news which appears to be good from China, and some that
isn't: Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup
Wangchen has been moved to a women's prison where conditions are not as
harsh, according to his friends and associates at the Switzerland based group
Filming for Tibet. They
say that Wangchen has been transferred to the Qinghai Provincial Women's
Prison, the main prison for women in China's Qinghai province. He had been
held at the Xichuan labor camp in Siling, in eastern Tibet.

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"I remain hopeful that
I will one day see the sun once more--not through the barred window of my
prison cell but as a free man." -Azimjon
Askarov

Today, on International Human Rights Day, CPJ and close to
20,000 supporters are calling on the governments of China and Kyrgyzstan to
release two journalists imprisoned for reporting on minorities' grievances and
human rights violations.

Not unusually, an already confusing situation in Tibet just
got worse. Twenty-seven Tibetans have self-immolated in protest against Chinese
this month alone, according to Human
Rights Watch. That's almost one a day. Against this chaotic backdrop, Chinese
authorities have issued an arrest order for a missing monk who helped film a
2008 documentary about life in Tibet, according to his film company, Filming
for Tibet.

CPJ supporters will know that we just honored self-taught Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen with an International Press Freedom Award, recognizing his courage documenting life under Chinese rule with full knowledge that he would face severe repercussions (he is serving a six-year jail term--you can join our petition for his release here). So we've been following with concern the latest reports that his assistant on that project, the monk Jigme Gyatso, has been missing, reportedly detained, since September.